Example sentences of "[vb -s] both [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Such a strong family unit has both emotional appeal , as underpinning moral virtues under current threat , and considerable economic appeal , as reducing the demand for costly public care of dependency groups .
2 The well-written Traveller 's Guide ( 1783 ) has both wry humour and relaxed confidence .
3 McCowan LJ held that : The history of the interpretation of the 1861 Act shows that , whether or not the word " maliciously " appears in the section in question , the Courts have consistently held that the mens rea of every type of offence against the person covers both actual intent and recklessness , in the sense of taking the risk of harm ensuing with foresight that it might happen .
4 In some of the above categories the present Publication Officer functions alone and covers both in-house production of information ( with the IT at her disposal ) and organises external production ( through HMSO and printers ) of publications .
5 Currently the Publication Officer functions alone and covers both in-house production of information ( with the IT at her disposal ) and organises external production ( through HMSO and printers ) of publications .
6 Known as capillary leak syndrome , this causes both systemic hypotension and tissue oedema .
7 Characterising the individual speaker 's topic as ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ incorporates both that element which the conversational analyst tends to abstract as the ‘ topic of conversation ’ for the participants ( 'What we 're talking about' ) and the individual speaker 's version ( 'I think' ) , as he/she makes a conversational contribution .
8 More importantly , the company 's development people have to be able to handle simultaneously a wide range of projects , often at different stages ( feasibility , formulation development , process scale-up ) and generally on different major compounds ; it is experience which develops both scientific competence and real commercial awareness .
9 For a large lexicon it is necessary to use a storage technique for the lexicon that allows both rapid search for information and compact storage of the information .
10 This method assumes both constant incidence and survival rates for the period of the population projections .
11 It is the character behind the skill which assures both sound motivation and genuineness .
12 ‘ The list , ’ explained Davout with uncharacteristic patience , ‘ includes both surviving company commanders of the 26th Light Infantry .
13 Climatic geomorphology is one part of a broader structure of regional geomorphology which includes both tectonic geomorphology and the stratigraphy of continental deposits .
14 Thus it includes both lexical choice — choice of words from the vocabulary of the language — and the grammatical choices involved in combining these words into sentences .
15 The purpose of this project is to examine current evaluation practices of the implementation of new information technologies , which includes both advanced manufacturing technologies and new office technologies , within a representative range of British organisations .
16 The 12-track LP includes both this year 's singles , ‘ Slowdown ’ and ‘ There I Go Again ’ .
17 Ann Act Return ; annual actual return ( per cent ) , this is the actual return earned over the past year and includes both capital appreciation ( depreciation ) and any dividend paid .
18 In dealing with the relationship between words and music the author unfailingly reveals both great experience and great imagination .
19 In the cat , histamine stimulates both gastric acid and platelet activating factor in vivo .
20 She values both the child 's self-expression and his respect for authority , work and the like ; she appreciates both independent self-will and disciplined conformity .
21 On the one hand , the British Government is championing the idea that currencies and economies should be left to compete against each other within a system which encourages both monetary co-operation and national autonomy .
22 In France , the centralisation of power renders both local action and lobbying Paris fairly useless .
23 Genet , also like Wilde , produces both anarchic pleasure and subversive knowledge inseparably .
24 Margaret Irwin cited it as another process from which women were excluded for what seemed to her good reason : " It requires both muscular strength and a certain " knack " .
25 A large and greedy fish like the Red Tail Cat requires both good filtration to deal with excreta — and stable conditions with everything in equilibrium .
26 This requires both parallel processing and a system of constraint satisfaction , and connectionism offers a way of implementing such a system .
27 This Stanislavskian approach requires both considerable sensitivity of feeling and technique .
28 The essays required of students make use of the writing function of ‘ visibility ’ ( ibid. ) , which enables re-reading and planning , while the publication of articles employs both this function of writing and its ability to facilitate communication over distance and to large numbers .
29 By the time of the St Petersburg fires both provincial nobility and the main stream of public opinion in the cities were much more receptive to official appeals for loyal support .
30 Over-compensation with ‘ bags of character ’ afflicts both pint-sized man and machine , as they invariably come over as busy and mildly ridiculous .
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